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Playback quality of internal DVD drives.
250 GB Maxtor vs Wester Digital
going, going gone..
No sound when playing Audio CD
driver for khypermedia CD-RW
Serial Hard Drive isn't showing on first boot
New Raptor 74GB Question
drive not accessible error
Does Seagate's Native SATA really native model?
DVD Controller card??!
Best HD under $100?
Problem clean-installing xp with SATA and ASUS K8V
sata controller
Alternative to Abit Serillel 2 Adapter?
My 60GXP just died. I could use an expert opinion.
Has anybody else had this problem?
One WD1800JB, or two Seagate 80Gs?
WD raptor sound much?
Master/Slave stuff
FDISK /MBR Will save you headaches!!
Church cd duplicator
Question: CD writer on a PC that is below specs???
DVD format
Newbi needs help stting up raid
USB Hard drive Question
Pimp a hard drive...
Optimum Hard Drive Performance
Samsung HDD...
bought raptor,but its sata can i still use my ps?
recommendation for video editing
External Backup Solution
CD-RW/DVD-ROM Shortcuts
Secondary IDE failure ?
120GB HDD+Win98+scandisk=problems
Formatting-"Trying to recover allocation unit"
Best Buy: Maxtor 120gb 8mb 7200rpm, 50 bucks
Norton Ghost / Raid?
Help w/ RAID
Help Diagnose My HDD Problem
Maxtor S-ATA/150 120GB 7200RPM 8MB
Hard Drive is not spinning up/powering up
Multissesion
HDD shutdown by softare?
Maxtor vs Seagate vs Western Digital
Which hard drive cooler?
Barracuda 7200.7 +'s vibration
DMA mode problem
your oppinion
how much faster is a Ultra 320 SCSI compare to ATA
NetCell's RAID 0 Perfomance + RAID 5 Security
HDD constantly active
Op.System and used hard drive
SATA HD recommendation?
CD/DVD missing from Device Manager
PC reboots when burning CD!
CDRW slow to read image to memory
Help with new HDD
"Drive not Allowed"...
problem with LG 48x24x48 CD-RW(GCE-8481B)
Config, System
Let's declare a winner!
Sony 510A DVD burning problems
No Audio playing dvd's
Windows boot drive?
What sort of speeds should a USB2 drive give?
Where to buy RaidCore SATA Card?
Really want to remove 30 second boot lag from SATA
Advice on SATA commpared to RAID
HDD opinion
Hard Drive Comparison
Newbie help here
RAID instead of SCSI
cdrw and dvdrom
Hard disk detected at wrong size?
RAID Help
320 scsi tests
DVD backup help
Pioneer A06 drivers
hard drive problems
Sata Installation
Will this external Hard drive work for me?
SATA Hitachi, WD or Maxtor
raid now or later
Best software for CD/DVD Writer
Freeize hard drive?
PLEASE HELP ANSWER???
LG DVDROM GSA-4040B Drivers For WinXP
No Supported Drive Detected!!! :( HELP!
Maya 5 Rendering
Need Help Badly. Onboard vrs Adaptec SATA RAID
Freeize hard drive?
New Cd writer issue - any ideas?
Partitioning and controller Qwestion
Getting 4 SATA drives to work...
Explorer not seeing 2nd drive....
hdd?
SATA Compatibility & Speeds
Backups - Durability
Huge problem with new Seagate hardisk
HELP! Crash On startup
Sony verus Plextor DVD burners
SATA...or not?
Slower downloads after hard drive update
Display problem
Focus or Tracking Error
Boot Wxp into SATA
Which DVD Drive?
Both my HDDs are performing like slugs in poo
HDD Problem!?!?!?
Raptor config
SATA/SCSI RAID comparison, what about CPU usage?
DIY External DVD Writer
ICH5R vs. Promise
Acer 20X10X40
SATA w/ RAID or no?
Both my HDDs are performing like slugs in poo
HDD performance on p4c800 deluxe
WDC WD1200BB drive making whining noise?
Repairing undetected HD
using ata133 drive on raid
Changing HD's
wd sata 250gb not recognized by windows
Toshiba DVD-RW (reliability)
new raptors, question
HELP!!! SOS!! ASAP!!
getting the most out of a hdd
A single SATA drive on XP (P4P800 mobo)
Which HDD is most reliable?
Additional Raptor question
SATA to Ide Converters
raid a good upgrade?
Crashed beeping harddrive! Help!
external case help
IDE0 and IDE--where to put cd-rom and dvd/cdrw
bulk or retail
Incompatible RAID controller?
camcorder film of 9gb and dvd
I cant use 4
Maxtor Diamond Plus 9 SATA
Help
SATA question!
Can't detect CD-ROM
Slim DVD
Please I need detailed help. Thanks. Please
SATA Drive Indicator
How to choose a hard disk
Do I need a separate Partition for Page File?
Migrating a RAID 0 array
Migrating a RAID 0 array
Plextor?
...becoming VERY angry
Maxtor 120 GB reporting full with only 40 GB of fi
DVD-R or DVD+R
New WD raptor really fast WD740
suggestion for a quiet 200-250gb drive
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